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Revisiting: Who Has All The Content?

Revisiting a post from 2017: Several services aim to gather all publications comprehensively. Who has all the content?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Jul 13, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Let the Metadata Wars Begin

Two giants in the library technology market move the battle over who controls library catalog records to court.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 22, 2022
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

“Recenter Library Systems on the User”: An Interview with OhioLINK’s Gwen Evans

The major US library consortium OhioLINK has created a vision for the systems that libraries use for acquiring content from publishers, managing collections, and enabling discovery. An interview about this vision with executive director Gwen Evans,

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Feb 24, 2020
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Who Has All the Content?

Several services attempt to gather up “all” of the content across publishers. This post provides an overview and taxonomy.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Feb 23, 2017
  • 20 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Monograph Output of American University Presses, 2009-2013

This is a report on the monograph output of American university presses. The report had the cooperation of 65 presses, which contributed their historical data to the project. The report shows the output of the presses and provides a more granular analysis by subject area and press size.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Feb 14, 2017
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Smarter Metadata — Aiding Discovery in Next Generation E-book and E-journal Gateways

For scholars to excel in the information age, technology needs to learn to learn. Perhaps highly specialized humans can help.

  • By Alix Vance
  • Feb 17, 2011
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

OCLC: Indispensable Database Collaborative or Social Media Prelude?

Despite OCLC’s legal woes, and no matter how the court of law decides, the court of user opinion may be the determining factor in OCLC’s future.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Aug 3, 2010
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

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